Ministry Goals
Chaplains, Ministers, study & evangelistic materials —Our goal is to recruit and train men to be chaplains and ministers in prisons throughout the United States. We plan to recruit them from churches and seminaries near the target prisons. To all prisons, we plan to come alongside the ministries already there and provide what might benefit them - creative and effective materials for the inmates. Our overall goal is to bring the gospel to every prisoner in America and provide whatever helps creativity and technology can provide.
Ministry to individual prisoners—in prisons where we don’t have a physical presence, yet distribute materials, we identify individual inmates with which we could correspond, send them spiritual materials, and develop a correspondence relationship, hopefully leading them to the Lord in the process.
Prayer Support Groups—Our goal is to enlist prayer groups made of up from churches and prisoner family members.
Church Placement—A saved ex-con needs a church home. He or she needs to be introduced to, and get plugged into, a church so that they grow in Christ
Half-way houses—Those inmates who turn to Christ in prison have a low recidivism rate, while those the leave prison unsaved are all likely to go back. Our goal is simple, if we missed them in prison, perhaps we can get them afterwards. And if we did introduce them to Christ in prison, we want to help them assimilate into society. We want to establish half-way houses where “ex-cons” can reside for little or no rent while they move back into law-abiding society.
Job placement—is another goal. This would require we develop relationships with local employers, convincing them to hire ex-cons in responsible positions, maybe developing a ladder of jobs which start small and instructive and grow over time to more responsible positions. Our belief is that research needs to be done on what starting jobs are best for those just out of prison, and what counseling is best to make certain the program works for both employer and employee.
Education—Helping released inmates attend higher education (after getting a GED if necessary) with an emphasis on trade school. Not that ex-cons aren’t smart enough to go to college, it’s that those with trades are often self-employed.
